A former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan is considering a Republican presidential nomination, it has been reported.David Duke, arguably America's most infamous white-power advocate, is planning a 25-state tour this month to gauge interest in a potential run for the White House, according to the Daily Beast.The father-of-two was a former Louisiana lawmaker and has run for president twice before.Once as a Republican in 1992 and before that as a Democrat in 1988.

Although his hey day was in the 1990s Duke has since racked up quite a following online.

Articles he has penned on his website include 'Black Population Welfare Bomb Ticks' and 'Is Russia the Key to White survival?'Another features President Obama in a jaunty pimp's hat sporting a moustache.Duke denies that he is a racist. Instead he likes to think of himself as a 'racial realist.''I understand that there are intrinsic differences between peoples and that those differences have profound effects on society,' he wrote on his website.'I also believe all people have a basic human right to preserve their own heritage.'